- Mild
- Evil "Fireys" pull off their limbs during a song. One plucks out their eyeballs and eats them. The Main Character is chased by these creatures who yell about pulling her head off.
- There are general fairy-tale themes of child abandonment, endangerment, and kidnapping.
- A paranoia-inducing scene in Toby's darkened bedroom with goblins popping out from various places, laughing at Sarah behind her back, and then disappearing before she can turn around to see them.
- Jareth's sudden arrival through the open bedroom window, accompanied by thunder and lightning. He produces a snake out of a crystal ball and throws it at Sarah.
- Sarah's sudden drop into a pit and surreal encounter with the "helping hands" on its walls.
- Ludo's tormenters has toothy stick monsters.
- Sarah and Hoggle's encounter with the "cleaner" machine, a metallic tunnel-filling device that threatens them with numerous whirling blades and spikes that look capable of shredding flesh and bone.
- The "Bog of Eternal Stench" makes anyone who falls into it stink forever. A couple of sequences in which characters are in serious danger of falling into it.
- The surreal masquerade ball shows its participants' strange behaviour and Sarah's obvious confusion over Jareth's romantic overtures to her.